On Kenneth's third evangelistic tour (Feb. 1929), the last from Nakhon, he visited villages and towns in the district. A young preacher, Ah Ti, was his associate. Both Kenneth and Margaret explain courtesy, manners and names in the Thai culture.
Kenneth wrote home about their move to Trang. Margaret and the children had gone first and he was left behind moving the furniture. He hired freight cars for the move. The climate was better in Trang and there was some sort of port.
Kenneth visited Chun Pon and preached two or three times a day. He was working to get the Gospels to some 5,000 villages, and it took a lot of walking and traveling. He preached the gospel the "apostolic way" and distributed a lot of literature.…
Kenneth was gone for an evangelistic tour and visited an awful town where there was a murder about every week and bad women and men skylarking all over the place.
Kenneth wrote a letter to his parents about his preaching on the street. He was going around with 2,000 Gospels, had preached the night before to a very large crowd, and handed out a great profusion of the Gospel of Luke.
Kru Tim was a teacher at the school who had gone insane. She was dismissed from the school but later came back, claiming she was well. She toured the town in taxis and followed young men. There were rumors that Nai Nong, an evangelist from Bangkok…
Kenneth describes his tour to Ban Don, the way he dressed, the people he met on his tour, and the preaching he had. He would gather people from anywhere between 15 and 250 to listen to his sermon. He preached and sang, distributed literature and…
Kenneth reads a letter he wrote about his concern for Margaret mental state, his desire to see her do something outside the home, expressing the need for her to get back to writing again and doing other things beside run the home every day.
Kenneth tells of his preaching in Bangkok to his fellow missionaries, challenging them for their lack of zeal. Most of them, he though, were living too soft a life. The response wasn't very enthusiastic.
At Thanksgiving the mission meetings opened and usually last for six or seven days. Kenneth was elected recording clerk of those meetings, a hard job. In the midst of this he took his third year language exam.
One night Kenneth woke up suddenly and heard two men walking by and talking about him. One urged the other to come listen to Kenneth's preaching because it might be true and they needed to know.
Margaret tells about Kenneth's first evangelistic tour, a four-week long tour. She tells about their problem with insects and vermin in the house while Kenneth was gone. Kenneth makes a few comments on this first tour and the impact it had on him…
On an evangelistic tour Kenneth called on the head of the monks and offered to teach them about Christianity. They set up a time when the monks would come to the Landons' house. They had many of these sessions, and at the end Kenneth rewarded them…
Kenneth had dengue fever. Margaret roasted a small chicken for him and he ate the entire chicken. Peggy had whooping cough at the same time. Margaret did not got the fever until later, when Kenneth had recovered.
Margaret gave a tea on Kenneth's birthday because that was the day that Wattana had its commencement, and they all had to go. Margaret explains the missionary work in girl education in the region and how these girls later were in high demand for…
The Landons discovered that their best cook, Ah Chuan, was deceiving them about money for the groceries. It got to the point where their monthly bill was much higher than that of other missionay families that had more people to entertain. Kenneth…
The Landons went on a vacation, each to a different destination. Kenneth wrote Margaret about his vacation and all the fun he was having while preaching the gospel as well. He tells about the songs he was learning every day.
The Landons tell again about their first year language study and exam, and Kenneth's first sermon in Siamese. It was about "A Friend of Jesus" and he prepared the sermon in English before translating it into Siamese. He was afraid, but he delivered…
Margaret stopped her language study because the strain had become too much. Kenneth went on and took his second year exam. He passed all the tests, but he was downgraded because the teachers had to grade him on the basis of two years in the country…
Kenneth and Margaret discuss Kenneth's letters that have gone missing. He wrote weekly to his parents, but Margaret suspects his father threw them away.
The Siamese in Bangkok had tried to keep the Landons there but other missionaries were resentful of Kenneth's ability with the local language and culture. The mission sent him to one of the worst fields in Nakhon, on the east coast. This turned out…
Kenneth's Siamese teacher taught him the high, scholarly Thai language of the Bible, and this turned out to make him sound funny when speaking the language in ordinary conversation. He was told that he spoke Siamese like the Bible.
Kenneth describes a normal day for the Landons at the beginning of their missionary life. They would wake up at 6:30, exercise, have breakfast, wash and play with baby Peggy, spend the rest of the morning studying Thai, have lunch, and go to school…
Kenneth reads a letter to his mother about Peggy's birth and his mother's health. He wrote to her, "I can tell from your letters, Mother, that you do not feel sure of seeing me again in life here."
Al Seigle and Kenneth went to register Peggy's birth both at the American Legation and the local police station. Both men did not speak Thai, and the police officers did not speak English, but they were able to communicate about the registration of a…